Book of the Week: Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others
Alex Danchev on the brutish heart of empire
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The Week in Books
Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity by David Sedley, Laurence professor of ancient philosophy and a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. University of California Press, £17.95, ISBN...
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Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism
Charles Townshend is taken aback by a combative and oddly incurious survey of the enemies within
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A Lesbian History of Britain
Rebecca Jennings's book is a neat overview of published material on lesbian history of the past 30 years. It is not a lone historical study that unearths much original material, being more of a...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC2
1. The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything by Tim Harford. Little, Brown Book Group, £18.99. ISBN 978031605642. Longman Pocket English Dictionary. Longman, £9.40. ISBN...
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French Laughter: Literary Humour From Diderot to Tournier
Christie Davies admires a playful look at the sly, carnal and punning humour of France
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The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
The separation of professions," wrote Adam Ferguson, friend to Adam Smith and the father of sociology, in 1767, "seems to promise improvement of skill, and is actually the cause why the productions...
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Experiments in Ethics
Philosophy in the 20th century conceived of itself as distinct from empirical disciplines. Kwame Anthony Appiah's project is to bring economics, psychology and philosophy back together; to...
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The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Boundaries and Transgressions
Rachel Muers on a work about the vital religious issues played out in women’s relationship to food
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The Excursion by William Wordsworth
I shed tears because I couldn’t praise it as I wanted.” Hazlitt’s sad comment on Wordsworth’s Excursion stands as the epitaph to a great poem that readers have often found hard to like. For...
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Published this week
ArtThe Pacific Arts of Polynesia and MicronesiaBy Adrienne L. Kaeppler, curator of oceanic ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DCOxford University Press, £12.99ISBN 9780192842381 Featuring...
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First Impressions competition: March 27 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a feminist treatment of American slavery:“I was born a slave; but I never knew it until six years of...
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Scottish super-university mooted
Task force considers reforms including mergers and abolishing SFC. Tariq Tahir reportsReforms aimed at creating one Scottish university that ranks among the world's top 20 institutions, and mergers...
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Student loans 'subsidise' top earners as low paid struggle
LSE economist urges review of funding system and a higher fees cap, says Rebecca Attwood
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HEA looks to raise bar and boost profile
Academy's chair tells Rebecca Attwood of five-year plan to help deliver 'highest quality learning'